Ranabir Samaddar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 317057 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ranabir Samaddar |
| NOMBRES | Ranabir |
| APELLIDO | Samaddar |
| FIRMA | SAMADDAR R |
| AFILIACIONES | Calcutta Research Group |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 9 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Néo-racisme et guerre de Gaza
Neo-racism and the war on Gaza
Textes venus du vide
Qu’est-ce qui relie Le Prince de Machiavel et Que faire ? de Lénine, que près de quatre cents ans séparent ? Le premier est un recueil de formulations sur ce que doit être un prince, les pièges rencontrés sur le chemin de sa réussite, la manière de gouverner, les indices de son pouvoir et ce qui est nécessaire pour inciter le peuple à contribuer à la gloire d’un royaume princier. Le second, écrit à l’époque de la Révolution russe, traite de la co…
The Russia-Ukraine war
The Left is under siege across the globe. Anti-NATO arguments are ridiculed as pro-Putin. The US military-industry nexus is rapidly extending to become a global military-industry-finance-media nexus. The Left in China, India, Turkey, Brazil and many other countries have been crushed or became complicit with authoritarianism. In Europe, progressive ideals that have enjoyed wide support since the end of World War Two are being seriously challenged.…
A compendium of keywords in refugee and migration studies is a collective work
In a great number of cases, the history of keywords and words in motion in refugee and migration studies shows the colonial and postcolonial imprint on them. Studying the import of these words means studying how these words were introduced, their use shifted, acquired manifold meanings, and in the process expanded the concepts that lay behind them. Thus, it is necessary to not only review their histories but also the multiple deployments of terms…
Alternative Futures and the Present
This book explores the idea that alternatives to our present condition are available in the present, such that a search for alternatives must involve rigorous study of some of its central texts, events, and thinkers. Through engagement with selected modern thinkers, texts, and events, it imagines a different future from the position of the current postcolonial moment, indicating the possibilities that emerge from the present and which shape conte…
Genocide
Labour's Burden of the Epidemic Covid-19 and internal migrant workers
The COVID-19 crisis in India produced severe disruptions in labour's life and pro-cess, while it offered the rulers an opportunity to push further the neoliberal re-forms. In this context, questions of economy became a matter of life for millions of petty producers, informal labour including migrant labour, peasants, and other sections of society. The metamorphosis of economic questions into biopolitical issues had been never as evident as it was…
Revolution and Counterrevolution in India
Research Article| January 01 2021 Revolution and Counterrevolution in India Ranabir Samaddar Ranabir Samaddar Ranabir Samaddar is the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies at the Calcutta Research Group and belongs to the school of critical thinking. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (1): 190–193. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8795830 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon…
Political Transition and Development Imperatives in India
The Postcolonial Age of Migration
This book critically examines the question of migration that appears at the intersection of global neo-liberal transformation, postcolonial politics, and economy. It analyses the specific ways in which colonial relations are produced and reproduced in global migratory flows and their consequences for labour, human rights, and social justice. The postcolonial age of migration not only indicates a geopolitical and geo-economic division of the globe…
The Global Gaze of Protection, Care, and Power
The Global Compacts on Refugees and Migrants have been widely considered as opportunities for the world to reconsider old approaches to refugee and migrant protection. Second, the declaration also highlights the limits and/or unwillingness of states to carry primary responsibility of refugees and migrants, and hence opens up the possibility to include the “whole of society,” which is to say the “whole of globe” covering stakeholders including bus…
Logistical Asia
From Popular Movements to Rebellion
Logistical Asia
Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age
The Rohingya in South Asia
Occupy College Street
1968 saw a wave of protests and student radicalism in India, some of the tactics and issues of which were reminiscent of those in Europe and North America. The anti-imperialist theme was similarly strident, and the student and youth movement posed serious challenges to the old established Left, sharing traits of a global New Left agenda. The upsurge of post-independence radicalism in India, however, drew on different historical legacies, and exhi…
Histories of the late nineteenth to early twentieth century immigration and our time
Recent studies on welfare state and schemes suggest a different way of understanding modern governance in which the study of the nation is not at the centre of political understanding. Instead, of significance in such studies is the inadequately explored history of governing a mobile, unruly world of population flows. These works have given us a sense of the hidden histories of conflicts, desperate survivals, and new and old networks. Studies of …
Accumulation in Post-Colonial Capitalism
Power and Responsibility at the Margins
Based on a study of the Indian experience of refugee protection, the article poses the issue of responsibility as a critical counterpoint to the question of power. Power may produce influence and power may be an element of influence. But how do we relate power to responsibility? Given the dominant discourse of “responsibility to protect” as part of the global governance regime, the article asks if there is a different way to conceptualize respons…
Policing a riot-torn city
Calcutta is now known as Kolkata, but for the purposes of this article, Calcutta is retained throughout. Historical accounts of the Great Calcutta Riots (1946) emphasize their role in making Indian Partition an inevitable outcome of nationalist-religious politics in colonial India. It is seen as a critical event in the religious wars, conventionally known as the Partition riots or communal riots, in the Indian sub-continent in 1945–47. This artic…
Une critique postcoloniale de l’accumulation contemporaine du capital
The article outlines a new aspect in a long-standing inquiry into the specifically postcolonial regime of capitalist accumulation and the forms of integration it gives rise to, by way of the techniques of primitive accumulation, and into the concomitant modes of intervention on the part of the State, as agent of a « passive revolution ». To this end, it first examines the new dialectical meanings taken on by the question of transition, under the …
Cultures of Governance and Peace
This volume seeks to bring together insights which look at the intersection of governance, culture and conflict resolution in India and the EU, two very different but connected epistemic, cultural and institutional settings, which have been divided by distance, colonialism, and culture, and yet recently brought closer together by ideas and practices of what is known as liberal peace, neoliberal state, and development projects. The differences are…
Cultures of Governance and Peace
This volume brings together insights which look at the intersection of governance, culture and conflict resolution in India and the European Union. Two very different but connected epistemic, cultural and institutional settings, which have been divided by distance, colonialism and culture; yet have recently been brought closer together by ideas and practices of what is known as liberal peace, neoliberal state and development projects. The differe…
Policing a riot-torn city
Calcutta is now known as Kolkata, but for the purposes of this article, Calcutta is retained throughout. Historical accounts of the Great Calcutta Riots (1946) emphasize their role in making Indian Partition an inevitable outcome of nationalist-religious politics in colonial India. It is seen as a critical event in the religious wars, conventionally known as the Partition riots or communal riots, in the Indian sub-continent in 1945–47. This artic…
The heterogeneous world of the citizen
In response to the broad range of approaches given by this Special Issue, this article offers a critical post-colonial view on the question of citizenship after orientalism. Drawing on the historical trajectory of the emergence of the citizen in India through the era of anti-colonial struggle and beyond into that of the post-colonial nation state, the article exemplifies what can be called a discontinuous way of studying the figure of the citizen…
Zones, corridors, and postcolonial capitalism
This essay examines the reordering of space under contemporary capitalism, mainly dealing with Asia and posing questions about its significance for Australia. It traces the history of zones and shows how today they are linked via corridors to ensure the circulation of commodities, capital and money. Notwithstanding the exploitation and dispossession involved in the system, it is argued that over time India and Australia will be brought together i…
Lire Foucault à l'ère post-coloniale
In our time of globalisation and post-colonial existence what do the writings of Michel Foucault represent for us ? The article discusses the reception of Foucault in India. It shows how new research in the areas of law and extra-legal powers, into the nature of sovereignty and exceptions, combines Foucault's ideas in a creative way, with a non-conformity and radicalism that post-colonial society is generating now. We cannot help remembering that…
The futures of the colonised
Leaders and publics
Alternative Futures and the Present
This book explores the idea that alternatives to our present condition are available in the present, such that a search for alternatives must involve rigorous study of some of its central texts, events, and thinkers. Through engagement with selected modern thinkers, texts, and events, it imagines a different future from the position of the current postcolonial moment, indicating the possibilities that emerge from the present and which shape conte…
Occupy College Street
1968 saw a wave of protests and student radicalism in India, some of the tactics and issues of which were reminiscent of those in Europe and North America. The anti-imperialist theme was similarly strident, and the student and youth movement posed serious challenges to the old established Left, sharing traits of a global New Left agenda. The upsurge of post-independence radicalism in India, however, drew on different historical legacies, and exhi…
Histories of the late nineteenth to early twentieth century immigration and our time
Recent studies on welfare state and schemes suggest a different way of understanding modern governance in which the study of the nation is not at the centre of political understanding. Instead, of significance in such studies is the inadequately explored history of governing a mobile, unruly world of population flows. These works have given us a sense of the hidden histories of conflicts, desperate survivals, and new and old networks. Studies of …
Law and Terror in the Age of Colonial Constitution Making
In this exploration of the close relationship between terror and law, I have several aims. First, I want to demonstrate that the relationship between terror and law is not a question of relating violence just to law, but to the very process of constitution making
The Failed Dialectic of Territoriality and Security, and the Imperatives of Dialogue
Reflections in another mirror
Reflections in another mirror
Flowing waters and the nationalist metaphors
In this article about the dispute between India and Bangladesh over sharing of the waters of the river Ganga, four themes are presented: (1) the politics of scarce resources, in this case water, has been one of the national strategies of power; (2) therefore, the language of dispute over a scarce resource makes the problem appear to be an international rather than a fundamental one; (3) a critical study of the history of the dispute shows that th…
New Technology and the Workers' Response
Introduction - Amiya Kumar Bagchi Coping with Technological Change Notes on Dynamic Flexibility, Cooperation and Economic Efficiency - Jose Ricardo Tauile Nation, Distribution and Machinery - Partha Sarathi Banerjee Managing and Organizing for Advanced Manufacturing Technology - Per Lindberg Technology Import and Skill Development in a Microelectronics-Based Industry - Sunil Mani The Case of India's Electronic Switching Systems Output Growth, Tec…
The Failed Dialectic of Territoriality and Security, and the Imperatives of Dialogue
Leaders and publics
Crossed Lines in Kashmir
The futures of the colonised
Loi et terreur
Law and Terror in the Age of Colonial Constitution Making
In this exploration of the close relationship between terror and law, I have several aims. First, I want to demonstrate that the relationship between terror and law is not a question of relating violence just to law, but to the very process of constitution making
Horizons
Philosophies et actions en période de terreur
Emergence of the Political Subject
Development, Democracy, Governmentality and Popular Politics
The point I want to emphasise at the outset is the emergence of governmental rationality as a specific form of rationality. There is now an acute need to study actual governmental processes in the
Lire Foucault à l'ère post-coloniale
In our time of globalisation and post-colonial existence what do the writings of Michel Foucault represent for us ? The article discusses the reception of Foucault in India. It shows how new research in the areas of law and extra-legal powers, into the nature of sovereignty and exceptions, combines Foucault's ideas in a creative way, with a non-conformity and radicalism that post-colonial society is generating now. We cannot help remembering that…
The Borders of Justice
Europe
For one to imagine Europe as a zone of translation is in the first place to put oneself as an outsider into a space called Europe, who needs his/her ideas, thoughts, and practices to be translated into what is regarded as European. But equally importantly, it also requires one to think of Europe as a collection of many spaces, of other spaces, where the subjects of Europe are thus both insiders and outsiders at the same time, and therefore requir…
The heterogeneous world of the citizen
In response to the broad range of approaches given by this Special Issue, this article offers a critical post-colonial view on the question of citizenship after orientalism. Drawing on the historical trajectory of the emergence of the citizen in India through the era of anti-colonial struggle and beyond into that of the post-colonial nation state, the article exemplifies what can be called a discontinuous way of studying the figure of the citizen…
The Biopolitics of Development
Par-delà la raison pratique
This article is about the Indian Evidence Act. It also explains how evidence is the script that carries law’s unconscious. One one hand, evidence is the site of reason, on the other hand it is also the performative site of the unconscious. The operation of the Evidence Act requires a court, arguments, ways of producing evidence, counter-arguments, scrutiny of the nature of the evidence submitted, and finally the disputation around what constitute…
Beyond the Frame of Practical Reason
This article is about the Indian Evidence Act. It explains how evidence is the script that carries law's unconscious. One one hand, evidence is the site of reason, and on the other hand it is the performative site of the unconscious. The operation of the Evidence Act requires a court, arguments, ways of producing evidence, counter-arguments, scrutiny of the nature of the evidence submitted, and finally the disputation around what constitutes an e…
New Subjects and New Governance in India
List of Figures and Tables. Introduction. Part I. A Second Transition? Sources of Legitimacy and `Scientific' Governance 1. The Democratic Story of Twin Challenges to Governance: Identity Needs and Developmental Needs Amit Prakash 2. New Technique of Governance: E-Governance and India's Democratic Experience Dipankar Sinha 3. Disasters: Experiences of Development during the Embankment Years in Bihar Manish K. Jha 4. Between Ecology and Economy: E…
The Religious Nature of Our Political Rites
Promise, Oath, and Sanctity On September 11, 2012, the Government of India announced a massive increase in the prices of petrol and cooking gas, declared a withdrawal of the subsidy of cooking gas, and lifted restrictions on foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail business. The ruling party in West Bengal, the Trinamul Congress (TMC), opposed the decision, appealed to the government at the Centre to revoke the decision, and declared that if the…
Zones, corridors, and postcolonial capitalism
This essay examines the reordering of space under contemporary capitalism, mainly dealing with Asia and posing questions about its significance for Australia. It traces the history of zones and shows how today they are linked via corridors to ensure the circulation of commodities, capital and money. Notwithstanding the exploitation and dispossession involved in the system, it is argued that over time India and Australia will be brought together i…
Cultures of Governance and Peace
This volume seeks to bring together insights which look at the intersection of governance, culture and conflict resolution in India and the EU, two very different but connected epistemic, cultural and institutional settings, which have been divided by distance, colonialism, and culture, and yet recently brought closer together by ideas and practices of what is known as liberal peace, neoliberal state, and development projects. The differences are…
Cultures of Governance and Peace
This volume brings together insights which look at the intersection of governance, culture and conflict resolution in India and the European Union. Two very different but connected epistemic, cultural and institutional settings, which have been divided by distance, colonialism and culture; yet have recently been brought closer together by ideas and practices of what is known as liberal peace, neoliberal state and development projects. The differe…
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